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guismo

@ guismo @aussie.zone

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  • How to use facebook without an account?

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  • Here the government requires full privacy breach for buying a sim (because, of course, the terrorists and stuff). That with the inevitable hack that happens from time to time on telcoms it's just a matter of time of them spreading all the details the telcom have on me.

    I think things will have to get worse for me to consider that option. But I am thinking about it. Still... there's no guarantee they won't block me since I won't use my real name or have any "friends" on it. I think if your account will clearly not give them money, they will block it.

  • How to use facebook without an account?

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  • What a fu234ing fu#$ cun@# ret!@# pieces of !#@ That pisses me of so much! The nerve! It happened to me too. A shitty website I never wanted to use and they behave as if they are the most important and necessary government agency.

    Which... because of people's stupidity, they really are now... I don't hate them as much as I hate the people that gave them this power.

  • skill issue

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  • Me! I worked most of my life with 3D and Photoshop. Some stuff i did might have increased some sales, some might have been fun, but all were useless and mostly advertisement. I always wondered, if everyone working in ads died, what effect would it have on humanity? Rich people would be worse, but humanity as a whole would be better.

    That's just my field. I can think of quite a few areas that are just harmful and exists mostly to make rich richer.

  • Non (originaly) english language fantasy

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  • No recommendations, but I'm very interested in what people can suggest.

    I kind of liked the 3 body series, originally Chinese. But that's science fiction. The netflix version however is a highly recommended series to never watch.

  • As an alternative to cloud providers, Sync thing allows you to synchronize files between different computers and mobile devices

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  • It's one of the most awesome softwares ever. I've been using it for so long that my life now relies on syncthing and if it ever stopped working I would be in a massive trouble. I think I don't rely on any other software as much.

    Unlike what people say, it is also an awesome tool for backup and saved my life many times.

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    Jerkoff

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  • Thanks for the link. And this should be the new motto.

    Or I came up with a different one. Lest we forget how some struggled to kill many for the profit of few.

    And that includes the sacrosanct anzac. But that opinion can get me killed here.

  • fuck cars

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  • To be honest cars make a lot of sense in a post apocalyptic world, where there are few of them and they would be survival tools.

    Unlike the millions going out for a coffee on a yanktank 500m away and things like that.

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    Jerkoff

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  • I wish I could post this here in Australia without getting rocks from every white Australian. You can search my post history to see their reaction to questioning this.

    Australia was involved in every one of those crimes. And the celebration for those meaningless murders are everywhere. Questioning this is questioning the sacrifice of Jesus.

    Though by order of our north american overlords the US should not be alone in that title.

  • Privacy — why should I care

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  • Although i use android i really, really don't want Google stuff on my pc. I use android because it's the only viable choice on mobile. But on pc I'll avoid chromium as much a i can. And having installed many roms the hard way before i saw no reason to make an exception.

    Plus i don't like the browser doing something like that where i don't know what it's doing. If it was on firefox maybe i would trust it more, but even then...

  • Privacy — why should I care

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  • I use my phone a lot lot. It's a terrible addiction. But yeah, I'm not the usual user and my needs are different.

    But I disagree with "spending twice the amount of time". I've never seen that except on evil stuff that just handicaps the website on mobile for no reason other than "I'll force you to use my app through pain", when the desktop site is as good or even better than the app. And if it's one of those companies, to me it's a red flag. It's not a service I'm using, it's a company trying to abuse me as far as they can and I'll be dumb if I continue on that abusive relationship and not break up.

    But ending an abusive relationship is a personal choice. But to me they are inflicting that pain on them selves.

    Oh, a good example is reddit. The mobile website experience is painful for no reason other than to force me to use their shitty app to steal more from me.

    And what do you know? That was a red flag and that is a company I should have tried my best to avoid for that reason and many others. And now here I am on Lemmy, happier, and not forced a shitty app down my throat.

  • Privacy — why should I care

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  • Ah, I didn't do it that way... I think. I can't remember. I certainly remember not wanting to because I don't trust that way. Also I use firefox and I doubted it would work. I don't know.

  • Privacy — why should I care

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  • You are not going to like the answer, but... I just don't do banking on a phone. I never did. Never trusted something that important on a device I'm carry around all the time. I do it on the desktop, which has an operating system I trust (Linux), that can't get on anyone else's hand.

    I'm sorry. I wish I could give a solution. This has never been a problem to me but I understand it's a massive thing for a lot of people.

    On a more complicated option, the answer is: it depends. If you have a pixel with grapheneOS and you relocked the phone, I think a lot of bank apps will work. Or maybe a different bank doesn't require that, or allows you to do it on the browser. I usually ask the bank before signing in if they will require me to use an app. If they do, I don't chose them.

    The reasons to require the user to use the app are almost always evil, anti-user, and shows it's an organization that will fuck you up down the line, so it's a good filter for me. A red flag.

    But yeah, sorry. I'm just the wrong person to ask. Maybe someone else who looked into the subject can suggest something. I never even bothered finding a solution because I never saw a problem.

  • Privacy — why should I care

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  • I agree. It's just that you said it's easy.

    Maybe you were referring to unlocking the phone, which is really easy on stock android if you know how.

    The day we don't have the choice anymore is the day i stop using android. Or smart phones at all if the alternative is apple.

  • Privacy — why should I care

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  • One thing i don't usually see people mentioning is that personal data is money. Money is power. Do you want to give that company more power?

    I absolutely do not want to make apple more powerful. With Android i can at least choose a company i dislike less, or even like, and give the power to then. Then i can even remove Google from the phone and not give them power. It may not be easy but it's in the license of Android, while not so with Apple.

    And that applies to every thing related to privacy to me. Do i want to make this company powerful? No? Is there an alternative? Then I'll try that if i can.

    If it's too difficult to find an alternative i try to live with it. It depends on how much i hate the company and how hard is it to change.

    My own privacy, funny enough, is not really that important to me.

  • Privacy — why should I care

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  • Just like Ulrich thinking installing graphene being easy is just his experience, that is just your experience. I don't have a single app that needs google play and that's one thing i find it easy.

    Whatever would need it i just use their website. Sure they try a lot to annoy you into using their useless app but it's doable and becomes an incentive to find a better service.

  • Privacy — why should I care

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  • As a GrapheneOS user, and someone who hates apple and would rather not have a phone than bend to apple, and while i agree with most of what you said, i would not expect the majority of the users to be able to install graphene. I don't personally know anyone i would expect to be able to do by themselves. It's easy for you. It wasn't super easy for me, it would be difficult for most people.

  • It has been a few weeks since we started this, which European email provider have you switched to?

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  • Australian here happy with Runbox, from an european country that respects privacy, unlike the 5 eyes. Unfortunately Australia is not a good country to get a cloud service.

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡

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  • Norway! Yes, sorry!

    Like I said my memory is hazy with the research I did many years ago. I just remember it's not in the 9 eyes.

    The last part was also important. Back then it didn't even need javascript. I think runbox6 still doesn't.

    Anyway, I like them and I hope they got more users. My only concern is of them going bankrupt. But many years later they are still here.

  • Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡

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  • Good to see another user. I hope there are many of us!